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Through the Looking Glass
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Study Guide
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Study Questions
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What happens to Alice as she progresses up the chess board? |
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Crossing the Third Square |
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In the Fourth Square |
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In the Fifth |
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In the Sixth |
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The Seventh |
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The Eighth |
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What people, or types of person, do you find
represented (perhaps satirically) in Looking Glass?
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Does Looking Glass seem a continuation of Wonderland?
In what ways are the two works different?
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Does this seem to be the same Alice that we met in Wonderland
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How many examples of reversals from our normal world do you find in the
Looking Glass World? How many of these are actually in keeping with
the kind of reversal that occurs in mirrors?
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Does Alice seem to grow up as she progresses from the second
square to the eighth?
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Jabberwocky
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Jabberwocky has been called "nonsense verse of the highes order" (I forget
by whom).
One thing that contributes to its fascination is that it is possible to
discern a grammatical structure that follows the rules of
English: verbs (or words that sound like nouns) where verbs should be,
nouns (or words that sound like nouns) where nouns are needed, etc.
Can you make grammatical sense of all of Jabberwocky's sentences?
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Dick VandeVelde, SJ, of Loyola University at Chicago, has compiled a
helpful
Glossary of Terms in Jabberwocky.
Take a look - it's well done and interesting.
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Two Descriptions in "Alice on the Stage" (written in 1887)
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The Red Queen.
The Red Queen must be cold and calm; she must be formal and strict, yet
not unkindly; pedantic to the tenth degree, the concentrated essence of
all governesses!
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The White Queen.
The White Queen seemed, to my dreaming fancy, gentle, stupid, fat and
pale; helpless as an infant; and with a slow, maundering, bewildered air
about her just suggesting imbecility, but never quite passing into it;
that would be fatal to any comic efect she might otherwise produce.
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